Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:12:25 +0200 (CEST) From: "Peter Boosten" <peter@boosten.org> To: "Juri Mianovich" <juri_mian@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help with text-append over SSH ? Message-ID: <61979.212.159.200.167.1192191145.squirrel@www.boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <561095.99967.qm@web45614.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> References: <561095.99967.qm@web45614.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, October 12, 2007 01:49, Juri Mianovich wrote: > > I have an account on a system where I cannot log in > over SSH, but I _can_ run a limited set of commands remotely, over SSH.= (I > am in a jail of some sorts). > > I want to append the contents of a local text file to > the contents of a remote text file, over SSH. > > Normally, I would do this locally with: > > > cat file1 >> file2 > > But again, file2 is remote, and I can't log in > there... I have access to the 'echo' command and the 'dd' command (amon= g > others) on the remote host ... so for instance, I can do things like th= is: > Just did some testing and this should work: cat localtext | ssh remote "cat >> remotetext" Peter --=20 http://www.boosten.org
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